Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding: The Instructional Approach for Implementing the Common Core Standards, Grades 3-12

Lisa Anne Fisher

ISBN 10: 1475808542 / ISBN 13: 9781475808544

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

This professional text offers why and what the English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are, how to implement strategies aligned with the standards, and the importance behind text complexity and rigor. All of the strategies can be used no matter what standards are being taught and in any discipline. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNU; YQCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781475808544

Synopsis:

With new standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, this professional text will address strategies to utilize in order to address the Common Core State Standards with reading closely to deepen understanding of informational text. This professional text offers why and what the English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are, how to implement strategies aligned with the standards, and the importance behind text complexity and rigor. All of the strategies can be used no matter what standards are being taught and in any discipline.

About the Author: Lisa Fisher is a full-time Grant Resource Specialist for Reading 6-12 for Pasco County Schools in Florida. In this capacities she serves and supports all teachers to provide tier 2 supports for all students to read and write critically about a wide-range of text. She is a literacy leader with a passion to help the struggling and reluctant learner to find success. Lisa’s other professional writings include Read, Write, and Learn: Using Literacy Groups to Student Advantage (2010), Surviving the Move and Learning to Thrive: Tools for Success in Secondary Schools, Grades 6-12 (2011), and a chapter entitled “A Splash of Color with a Dash of Discovery Makes One Great Shade” in Empowering The Voice of the Teacher Researcher: Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry edited by Roger Brindley and Christine Crocco (2009). She continues to reside in Florida with her husband and four Chihuahuas.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding:...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New